Teach Terrific Grammar, Grades 6-8: A Complete Grammar Program for Use in Any Classroom (McGraw-Hill Teacher Resources) [Paperback]

Gary Muschla (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 15, 2006 | ISBN-10: 0071477039 | ISBN-13: 978-0071477031 | Edition: 1

Help your students develop their grammar skills

If you are looking for supplemental material for your grammar program or are in search of practical exercises that will boost your pupils' language confidence, this invaluable resource has it all!

Teach Terrific Grammar, Grades 6-8 features more than 160 self-correcting grammar lessons in a fun puzzle format--complete with answer key--versatile enough to be adapted to any existing program or approach. It also has thirty reproducible "Tip Sheets" to share with your students that review the parts of speech and other important grammar rules so they can learn how to:

• Recognize types of sentences
• Understand sentence structure
• Identify parts of speech
• Avoid fragments and run-ons
• Use punctuation and capitalization together
• Find grammar mistakes
• and much more

Soon your students will become masters at using language correctly and spotting grammar mistakes easily.

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About the Author

Gary Robert Muschla has more than 25 years' experience as a classroom teacher. He is a member of The Authors Guild and the National Writers Association and has written dozens of practical resource guides for classroom teachers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (December 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071477039
• ISBN-13: 978-0071477031
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,489 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Gary Robert Muschla has taught grades four through six for twenty-five years and has written dozens of teacher resource guides.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fills an Important Need, October 10, 2008

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This review is from: Teach Terrific Grammar, Grades 6-8: A Complete Grammar Program for Use in Any Classroom (McGraw-Hill Teacher Resources) (Paperback)

My students and I are enjoying this book, written at just the right level for middle school. It's a collection of standard grammar worksheets, but they are very doable, and the answers to each form a "secret word" (often a little-known historical figure, or animal), so there's a fun, puzzle-like aspect to them. Makes grammar about as painless as possible. Plus it's extremely difficult to find blackline masters to teach grammar rather than expensive workbooks.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is a great tool for learning grammar, September 25, 2010

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We are a home school family and I purchased this book this year to save money over buying the expensive grammar/English program I normally buy. Each section has a good description in the teaching section; then there are several pages of worksheets for each section. The worksheets teach you a little something about a person, place or thing in history. Then you have to find the answer for the question it asks at the bottom of the page by answering all of the grammar questions correctly. My son is 12 and he really likes this book and enjoys finding out the answers to the questions and learning something new about history. I would recommend this to others!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for use with a document camera, September 25, 2010

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This review is from: Teach Terrific Grammar, Grades 6-8: A Complete Grammar Program for Use in Any Classroom (McGraw-Hill Teacher Resources) (Paperback)

Now that I have a Smartboard and document camera, I find I use more quick checks or worksheet kind of materials, such as this book provides. For me, this kind of source has good practice, but I never could warrent making a hundred copies of something that would take the kids five minutes to do. This book provides fun exercises in necessary skills, and I can project a page up, and we can do it together in a game sort of format. I have only just gotten the book and used the first few pages, but students enjoyed doing them. I had them take notes from the tip page and then they had those to refer to as they did the puzzle. The notes are brief and clear and my 7th and 8th grade students didn't even grumble! I called on students randomly to answer questions. They could confer as teams before answering. I really like the format of the book because kids can take notes--(provided in the book) which are brief that they then use to their benefit for the activity. This is the type of book that you can pick and choose what you want to use, and there isn't a lot of preparation time needed to use it.